Durbin: Medical device tax repeal might be on table

No. 2 Democrat in Senate declares, 'We can work on this'

Published: 10/01/2013 at 4:09 PM

(CNN) — A repeal of the medical device tax may be a point of compromise between the House and Senate as the two houses of Congress work to end the government shutdown, the number two Democrat in the Senate said Tuesday.

“We can work on something, I believe, on the medical device tax. That was one of the proposals from Republicans, as long as we replace the revenue,” Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois said on CNN’s “New Day.”